Over the weekend, I have been doing a bit of surfing to see what education related articles are online. My main reason was that the school year is about to start (actually it has started in some colleges last week and even for K-12 in a few states…). I found a link on the blog [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2010
e-textbooks…
August 24, 2010
In the few years since I graduated from college, it would seem that having a laptop (or the equivalent) has gone from being a handy tool to the prime prerequisite to college life. Not too surprisingly, there is a comparable movement of students toward dealing with electronic versions of textbooks (albeit several years after this [...]
North Korea is on Facebook…
August 23, 2010
I love being surprised by events in life…In a strange way, finding out that the People’s Republic of North Korea now has a Facebook page may qualify… I found this bit of trivia as enthralling as finding out that Muammar al-Gaddafi intended to market a super car of his own design (look out Ferrari!) a [...]
teaching thinking…
August 21, 2010
Long before I got into the education business I would hear lots about critical thinking, and how there is seemingly a dearth of thought on high school and college campuses. To be honest, I imagine that there are a lot of small initiatives (by individual teachers) all over the country which are making some progress, [...]
more problems with education…
August 19, 2010
Yesterday I was thinking about what is most important in one’s education. That is, what did you consider to me most important then…and now. The thought came to me that learning how to think would likely trump anything else in one’s growth as a human. This brings up a number of quite complicated questions for [...]
some iPad problems and solutions…
August 17, 2010
I’ve been using the iPad more and more in the last few months. It is quite obviously a very handy way to deal with media (emails, movies, music, books, etc.). But beyond this convenience, I am slowly coming to see that there are some emergent aspects of using this Apple tablet. Since I have almost [...]
why go to college?
August 16, 2010
As a prospective high school teacher (read: unemployed teacher…), I don’t give college education as much focus as I probably should. From my most recent bout of college life I have come to the sad conclusion that the less I have to do with these organizations the better. I used to think that my perspectives [...]
plagiarism…
August 12, 2010
I was reading the editorial page of the New York Times the other day (on my iPhone for free…for now…) and ran across a few letters to the editor commenting upon a previous newspaper article about the problems which teachers and academics are having with plagiarism. In this new world with almost infinite access to [...]
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